Managing for Results Executive Branch Should More Fully Implement the GPRA Modernization Act to Address Pressing Governance Challenges
Abstract
The federal government faces significant and long-standing fiscal, management, and performance challenges. The act's implementation offers opportunities for Congress and the executive branch to help address these challenges. This report is the latest in a series in which GAO, as required by the act, reviewed the act's initial implementation. GAO assessed the executive branch's (1) progress in implementing the act and (2) effectiveness in using tools provided by the act to address key governance challenges. To address these objectives, GAO reviewed the act, related OMB guidance, and past and recent GAO work related to federal performance management and the act; and interviewed OMB staff. In addition, to determine the extent to which agencies are using performance information and several of the acts requirements to improve agency results, GAO surveyed a stratified random sample of 4,391 federal managers from 24 agencies, with a 69 percent response rate which allows GAO to generalize these results.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- AD1177074
Entities
People
- Adam Miles
- Don Kiggins
- J. Christopher Mihm
- Janice Latimer
- Jill Lacey
- Judith Kordahl
- Karin Fangman
- Laura Miller Craig
- Mallory Barg Bulman
- Peter Beck
- Sara Daleski
- Stuart Kaufman
- Tom Beall
- Virginia Chanley
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office